Meditation on Psalm 22 for Good Frisay

Athanasius called this Psalm the 5th gospel account of the crucifixion.

Here is a remarkable description of the death of the Lord Jesus about written about 1000 years before Jesus’ birth.

Listen out for the turning point in the Psalm:
It begins pitifully but it ends in praise.
God’s king is forsaken then vindicated.
Here is the pattern of cross and resurrection; suffering then glory.

How dreadful sin must be that it could do that:
that it could transform God the Son into a worm:
that the Lord of Glory should become such an object of derision

(With a debt to Revd Dr Steve Jeffrey, who is preached on this Psalm last week)